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brighter and more scarlet and also greater in extent, and in having 

 the lateral pectoral patches more yellowish, less greenish. Accord- 

 ing to Gyldenstolpe *^ luckUpectus has the iipperparts more greenish, 

 less bronzy, than pulchella. Sclater notes that the two races are not 

 always readily identifiable, and he also cautions that the form of 

 Asben and adjacent parts of northern Nigeria, aegra Hartert, is 

 somewhat doubtful in its status. 



If we assume, however, that lucidipectus is valid (which is a safe 

 assumption), its range is as follows: Northwestern Kenya Colony 

 (south to Mount Elgon) north through Ethiopia to Eritrea and 

 through northern Uganda to the White Nile, along which it occurs 

 as far as Khartoum, and also to Sennar and Nubia, It ranges west 

 to the Bahr el Ghazal, where it has been taken at Wau. 



The size variations of the adults are shown in table 68, 



Table 68. — Measurements of 26 specimens of Nectarinia pulchella lucidipectus 



Two of the adult males (taken March 28) are in molt; all 

 the others are in nuptial plumage. The immature males taken in 



*i Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1924, p. 86. 



